Cond-mat Update

Tue, 06 October 2026 from PRX (25 papers)
Emergent Altermagnetism at Surfaces of Antiferromagnets: Full Symmetry Classification and Material Identification
1 | Phys. Rev. X | 10 pt (allPRX; two-dimensional; ferromagnet; antiferromagnet; altermagnet; Jairo Sinova) | Colin Lange, Rodrigo Jaeschke-Ubiergo, Atasi Chakraborty, Xanthe H. Verbeek, Libor Šmejkal, Jairo Sinova, and Alexander Mook
Topological Mixed States: Phases of Matter from Axiomatic Approaches
2 | Phys. Rev. X | 3 pt (allPRX; topolo) | Tai-Hsuan Yang, Bowen Shi, and Jong Yeon Lee
Quasicrystal Topological Hydrodynamics
3 | Phys. Rev. X | 3 pt (allPRX; topolo) | Jun-liang Duan, Chuanjie Hu, Jiayun Ning, Xu-jie Chai, Li-Wei Wang, Yang Dong, Jianjun Liu, Shan Zhu, Huanyang Chen, Jian-Hua Jiang, and Jin-hui Chen
Interaction-Assisted Topological Pumping in Few- and Many-Atom Rydberg Arrays
4 | Phys. Rev. X | 3 pt (allPRX; topolo) | Chenxi Huang, Tao Chen, Qian Liang, Matthew A. Krebs, Ethan Springhorn, Ruiyu Li, Mingsheng Tian, Kaden R. A. Hazzard, Jacob P. Covey, and Bryce Gadway
Spin Nematic Liquid Crystal and Scalar Spin Chirality in Tetragonal Lattice ${\mathrm{YbMnBi}}_{2}$
5 | Phys. Rev. X | 2 pt (allPRX; Nernst effect) | Yaofeng Xie, Sijie Xu, Yu Pan, Taekoo Oh, Tingjun Zhang, Masaaki Matsuda, Zhaoyu Liu, Zehao Wang, Yiheng Wang, Siyu Pan, Avishek Maity, Sylwia Pawledzio, Xiaoping Wang, Songxue Chi, Feng Ye, Yiqing Hao, Huibo Cao, Barry L. Winn, Melissa K. Graves-Brook, Shuai Wu, Fan Li, Xiaoyuan Zhou, Claudia Felser, Naoto Nagaosa, and Pengcheng Dai
Topological Flowscape Reveals State Transitions in Nonreciprocal Living Matter
6 | Phys. Rev. X | 2 pt (allPRX; topolo) | Hyunseok Lee, EliseAnne Koskelo, Shreyas Gokhale, Junang Li, Chenyi Fei, Chih-Wei Joshua Liu, Lisa Lin, Jörn Dunkel, Dominic J. Skinner, and Nikta Fakhri
Information Thermodynamics of Agents: The Work Capacity of Channels with Memory
7 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Lukas J. Fiderer, Paul C. Barth, Isaac D. Smith, and Hans J. Briegel
Moving Heterointerface with Robustly High Thermal Conductance
8 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Fuwei Yang, Wenjiang Zhou, Yelingyi Wang, Yuxi Wang, Deli Peng, Quanshui Zheng, and Bai Song
Nature Is Stingy: Universality of Scrooge Ensembles in Quantum Many-Body Systems
9 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Wai-Keong Mok, Tobias Haug, Wen Wei Ho, and John Preskill
Energy-Efficient Control of Interacting Microscopic Systems: When Longer Paths Save Energy
10 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Samuel Monter, Lars T. Stutzer, Sarah A. M. Loos, and Clemens Bechinger
Erratum: Programmable Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulator in Twisted Crystalline Flatbands [Phys. Rev. X <b>16</b>, 011015 (2026)]
11 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Wenxuan Wang, Yijie Wang, Zaizhe Zhang, Zihao Huo, Gengdong Zhou, Shu Zhang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Xiaoxia Yang, Qing Dai, X. C. Xie, Kaihui Liu, Zhida Song, and Xiaobo Lu
Variational Multi-Gaussian Phase-Space Bosonic Dynamics via Automatic Differentiation
12 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Jacopo Tosca, Francesco Carnazza, Luca Giacomelli, and Cristiano Ciuti
Chaotic Many-Body Quantum Dynamics, Spectral Correlations, and Energy Diffusion
13 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | J. T. Chalker and Dominik Hahn
Fractional Quantum Hall States under Density Decoherence
14 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Zijian Wang, Ruihua Fan, Tianle Wang, Samuel J. Garratt, and Ehud Altman
Enduring Mechanical Memory from the Constitutive Response of Elastically Recoverable Nanostructured Materials
15 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Abhishek Gupta, Bhanugoban Maheswaran, Nicholas Jaegersberg, Komal Chawla, and Ramathasan Thevamaran
Genuine and Spurious (Non-)Ergodicity in Single Particle Tracking
16 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Wei Wang, Qing Wei, Igor M. Sokolov, Ralf Metzler, and Aleksei Chechkin
Superconductivity in Monolayer-Trilayer Phase of ${\mathrm{La}}_{3}{\mathrm{Ni}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{7}$ under High Pressure
17 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Chaoxin Huang, Jingyuan Li, Xing Huang, Hengyuan Zhang, Deyuan Hu, Mengwu Huo, Xiang Chen, Zhen Chen, Hualei Sun, and Meng Wang
Exact Nematic and Mixed Magnetic Phases Driven by Competing Orders on the Pyrochlore Lattice
18 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Niccolò Francini, Lukas Schmidt, Lukas Janssen, and Daniel Lozano-Gómez
Pomeranchuk Instability Induced by an Emergent Higher-Order Van Hove Singularity on the Distorted Kagome Surface of ${\mathrm{Co}}_{3}{\mathrm{Sn}}_{2}{\mathrm{S}}_{2}$
19 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Pranab Kumar Nag, Rajib Batabyal, Julian Ingham, Noam Morali, Hengxin Tan, Jahyun Koo, Jean Souza, Moshe Haim, Armando Consiglio, Enke Liu, Raquel Queiroz, Ronny Thomale, Binghai Yan, Claudia Felser, Nurit Avraham, and Haim Beidenkopf
Reversibility, Chaos, and Attractors in Periodically Sheared Elastic Filaments
20 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Francesco Bonacci, Brato Chakrabarti, Olivia du Roure, Anke Lindner, and David Saintillan
Overcoming Intrinsic Material Limitations through Cavity Feedback
21 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | M. Ebrahimi, Y. Huang, V. A. S. V. Bittencourt, A. Rashedi, A. Metelmann, and J. P. Davis
Geometrically Frustrated Quadrupoles on the Pyrochlore Lattice and Generalized Spin Liquids
22 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Kristian Tyn Kai Chung, Sylvain Petit, Julien Robert, and Paul McClarty
Quantum Birthmarks: Ergodicity Breaking Beyond Scarring
23 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Anton M. Graf, Saul Atwood, Mingxuan Xiao, Roland Ketzmerick, Eric J. Heller, and Joonas Keski-Rahkonen
Effective Ionic Valence and Local Magnetic Moment in Kagome Superconductors
24 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Ruoshi Jiang, Zi-Jian Lang, Yuzki Oey, Andrea Capa Salinas, Stephen D. Wilson, Yongwei Li, Ilya Shipulin, Yiwen Zhang, Deng Hu, Zhiwei Wang, Hans-Henning Klauss, Zurab Guguchia, Vadim Grinenko, and Wei Ku
General Quantum Circuit Framework for Extended Wigner’s Friend Scenarios: Logically and Causally Consistent Reasoning without Absolute Measurement Events
25 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | V. Vilasini and Mischa P. Woods